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a picture created with oil paint
hung a beautiful oil painting of the bay on the living room wall
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Yaacov Agam’s large oil painting Evening (1976) also hammered at $320,000 or $384,000 with fees on an estimate of $150,000 to $200,000.
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Karen K. Ho, ARTnews.com, 27 Sep. 2024
The oil painting on canvas features Picasso’s asymmetrical style of a woman in a blue dress with red lipstick.
—Barbie Latza Nadeau, CNN, 2 Oct. 2024
Chase and Brooke had been commissioned to create a series of life-size oil paintings and planned a dark, religious theme.
—Nasha Smith, Peoplemag, 22 Sep. 2024
Mad offered $3,000 for a charcoal print and a full-color oil painting.
—Patrick Sauer, Smithsonian Magazine, 17 Sep. 2024
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Karen K. Ho, ARTnews.com, 27 Sep. 2024
The oil painting on canvas features Picasso’s asymmetrical style of a woman in a blue dress with red lipstick.
—Barbie Latza Nadeau, CNN, 2 Oct. 2024
Chase and Brooke had been commissioned to create a series of life-size oil paintings and planned a dark, religious theme.
—Nasha Smith, Peoplemag, 22 Sep. 2024
Mad offered $3,000 for a charcoal print and a full-color oil painting.
—Patrick Sauer, Smithsonian Magazine, 17 Sep. 2024
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“Oil painting.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/oil%20painting. Accessed 21 Nov. 2024.
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